Aijaz Ashraf Wani (PhD), is Professor of Political Science at University of Kashmir, J&K, India.He is author of What Happened to Governance in Kashmir?, Oxford University Press, 2019; and Co-editor of Democracy in South Asia, Routledge, 2024; & Government and Politics of Jammu and Kashmir: From Princely State to Union Territory, SAGE, 2022. His research has appeared in national and international journals. His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of governance, democracy, public policy, electoral politics and Identity Politics.